Chapter 50: Shame!
The first performance of the art troupe was unsatisfactory, and most of these soldiers in the Ming Dynasty were recruited by the recruitment system. Ancient people believed that serving as a soldier would lead to death, so they were willing to serve as a soldier when they were about to starve to death.
But today, this performance of the Art Troupe, a song "Spring Hope" "The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and the city is deep in spring." When I feel the tears, I hate the birds. sang the desolate and miserable atmosphere of years of war and desolation in various states. followed by the song "Sending Deputy Envoy Li to the Western Officers and Army" "Fame is only taken immediately, what a hero is a husband" sang in people's hearts! In the end, "From the Army" "Rather be a centurion, better than a scholar" is just right, just now we defeated Li Zicheng's army of 500,000, what a great achievement! The soldiers couldn't help but feel excited!
For the first time, the soldiers really knew that they did not enlist in the army to have enough to eat, but to ruin the country and the family, and good men should protect their families and defend the country!
Of course, Chongzhen also had to admit that compared with the content of the song, the soldiers seemed to prefer the sound of listening to the song sung by Chen Yuanyuan. But what does it matter? Whoever reads will only bury his head in hard reading, and who has never laughed and laughed occasionally for pastime, which does not prevent him from taking the 985 and 211 exams!
But these tunes alone are not enough, the first time you listen to them is still fresh, if you sing these tunes every day, you will also have calluses in your ears!
So Chongzhen asked Li Yan to hurry up and make up a play, the content of which was about the Qing army's burning, killing and looting. Plus about Juntian, it is two dramas, Li Yan also lived up to my expectations, it was written in one day, the script was okay, it was about a small group of Qing troops entering the village, burning, killing and looting the village, extremely vicious! Later, he grabbed the male owner's village.,The male owner gathered the strong men in the village to fight back against the Qing army and eliminated this small group of Qing demons.。 Later, the male protagonist joined Tianziwei in response to the call of the imperial court, and launched a revenge battle against the Qing Demon!
Chongzhen was discussing the script with Li Yan, and Li Richao, the commander of Jinyiwei, hurried to the Qianqing Palace to report the military situation: the Qing army attacked Nanzhili Zhejiang, Nanjing anti-king Zhu Yousong and Hangzhou anti-king Zhu Changshu were captured by the Qing army, and Nanjing and Hangzhou have fallen!
When Chongzhen heard this, he was shocked, this is almost the same as in the history books! But these things will only happen next year!
"It's only been a month since the Qing army entered the customs, and Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changshu have surrendered? Didn't they have an army of 400,000? Li Yan asked in disbelief!
"Those 400,000 troops are just a bunch of wrecks who will only fight each other!" Li Richao said indignantly: "Zuo Liangyu, who supported Zhu Changshu in Hangzhou, led an army to attack Nanjing, and Zhu Yousong asked the army to be stationed in Huai'an, Yangzhou, Luzhou, and Sizhou to resist Zuo Liangyu. The Qing army arrived in Huai'an first, and Liu Zeqing, who was stationed in Huai'an, got the news and ransacked Huai'an City overnight, and then fled with the army! After Liu Zeqing fled, the Qing army faced Yangzhou! At this time, only Shi Kefa and a few thousand men and horses were left in Yangzhou, and they were broken by the Qing army in less than half a day, and Shi Kefa was killed in battle. The Qing army slaughtered the city because of Yangzhou's resistance, and no one in Yangzhou was spared! The Qing army then crossed the river from Yangzhou and attacked Nanjing and Hangzhou, Yangzhou was slaughtered for resisting for half a day, and Nanjing and Hangzhou were afraid to surrender without a fight! ”
"Surrender without a fight?! What about those armies of the Southern Ming? Li Yan still didn't believe it.
"Those big armies will only fight among themselves, and the Qing army will either flee or surrender as soon as they come!"
"With an army of 400,000, no one dares to fight with the Qing army?"
"Except for the thousands of people led by Shi Kefa, no one else started a war with the Qing army, Liu Zeqing ran first and then surrendered, and the others surrendered directly!"
"Wreck! Shame! What a shame! Li Yan listened to the howl of resentment, and the 400,000 army faced the 200,000 of the Qing army, and all of them surrendered without a fight!
"These people are far inferior to a woman, when the Qing army came to the city, Liu Ru, the wife of Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, persuaded Qian Qianyi to throw herself into the water and martyrdom with her, but Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Leader Generation of Writers, actually said that the water was too cold! And then brazenly went out of the city and surrendered! ”
"This Nanming group of rebels, what kind of thing!" Li Yan said angrily.
"Your Majesty, what do you see, this is the news that several of Weichen's cronies came from Yangzhou and Nanjing" Li Richao saw that Chongzhen didn't say a word, thinking that the emperor also thought it was fake news, after all, these 400,000 people surrendered without a fight in the face of 200,000 people, which was unheard of, and the Jinyi Wei who sent him a message were all his cronies, and he also doubted whether it was true, several of his cronies said that they were all seen with their own eyes, and asked Li Richao to import and report to the emperor.
"The matter is urgent, let's gather the ministers to discuss it immediately!" After hearing this, Chongzhen was not as excited as Li Yan and Li Richao, this has happened in history!
At this time, the officials and people of Beijing were still immersed in the joy and anger of repelling Li Zicheng's 500,000 army and the celebration of the art troupe.
Chongzhen asked Li Richao to tell the officials in detail the news of the surrender of Nanming, the slaughter of the city of Yangzhou, and they were all speechless in surprise, but they were more suspicious of the authenticity of the news!
Ni Yuanlu was the first to speak, "Millions of soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou were all slaughtered?" Is the message true? ”
Jin Yiwei saw that the whole city of Yangzhou was densely packed with corpses, the elders were gray-haired, and the weak had just come out of swaddling clothes! According to the people and monks hiding nearby, the killing lasted for ten days! The Qing army killed people when they saw them! When I saw a woman, I raped first and then killed! The Qing army also deliberately cut off five carts of ears and put them at the gates of Nanjing and Hangzhou, threatening that if they resisted, Yangzhou would be the end! Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, led a hundred officials out of the city to kneel to welcome the surrender"
"Mu Zhai Tang Donglin Party leader, will do such a greedy life and fear of death, I used to talk with Mu Zhai all night, Mu Zhai taught me but the king of the world, won the name before and after his death! Mu Zhai values reputation the most, what would surrender to foreign barbarians! ”
"That's true, when the Qing army came to the city, Qian Qianyi's wife Liu Ru asked Qian Qianyi to throw himself into the river with her to martyrdom, Qian Qianyi said that the water was too cold and refused to throw himself into the river, Liu Ru was rescued after throwing himself into the river, and the city of Nanjing spread, saying that Qian Qianyi usually talks about his heart, but the water is too cold when he is in danger"
"Nanjing sits on the Yangtze River, with plenty of grain and grass, what is likely to surrender?"
"Nanming has an army of 400,000, and the Qing Demon is only 200,000, how can he surrender?" Another official asked suspiciously
Li Richao saw that there were more and more people questioning, so he said to Chongzhen, "Emperor Qiyu, Jinyiwei is only three or five days faster than other news, presumably the news of Yangzhou slaughtering Nanjing and Hangzhou without a fight will also come in the past few days, these news are from multiple Jinyiwei, Weichen just reported the truth, there is no lie!" ”
The officials heard Li Richao say this, yes, Jinyiwei has a fast horse to deliver the news, and it is a few days faster than others, and such a big incident, it is estimated that it will also reach Beijing in the next two days, there is no need for Jinyiwei to make up such false news!
This Nanming, an army of 400,000, surrendered without a fight, what a great shame!